School's Out for the Summer... then why do I have homework?!?!?

I could've gotten home and read what I was supposed to read, but my job is full of shitheads who don't give a flying fuck that they don't care that they are late and that people can't leave cause they get mandated to stay. But hey, I hope he dies a quick death. He's seriously fucking using up my O2.

Anyways, so, I've gathered some links on how to make my Shadow-Priesting better:
Shadowpriest:
www.shadowpriest.com
www.tankspot.com
I wish this was less QQ and more on the pewpew... I am praying I could find a lot more concise version of the stuff they talk about.

Gonna read up on this tomorrow. I'm too tired to comprehend big words right now -_-

Birds of a Feather Suck Together...

So I just came home from hanging out with family and I decided to run the heroic daily on Emgalla. It took about three minutes to look for a group, and I was glad that it was Culling of Stratholme. It's an easy-peasy instance, and I had a pally tank. All those AoE stuns for Undead... ZOMG Would have been PERFECT!!!

I am sad to report that this group was EPIC fail.

It's funny how all but me were in this guild called Method (from some other god-forsaken server) and I am with Methodical. But the only similarities between their guild and mine was that we're both on opposite sides of the spectrum: I'll let the reader figure out where Methodical ranks but Method falls directly between epic fucking fail and I just got this toon from eBay.

The tankadin did shitballs of a job. I don't think he gave anyone a pally buff. Then he couldn't hold aggro for shit. Seriously, how hard is it to pee on the ground PLUS Hand of Reckoning/Righteous Defense? OH yeah, NEVERMIND, the guy did NOT have Righteous Fury on and only did he realize he didn't have it was after the first boss. Oh yeah, he was definitely better off without it cause Righteous Fury did nothing for that cockgobbler. No one died (now i feel uber-cool about it!) and yes, I should've said something but I am always one to give a person the benefit of the doubt. Yeah, that mofo deserved none.

All but one of his buddies are just as horrible as he was. The DK who barely had a 5KGS did about 4800 DPS. But the other two? They make me want to cry.

Now, I am not the best judge for Shamans (I never played one) but I am more than sure a fresh 80 should be aware of their spells by now. This Elemental Shaman did less than 1500 DPS, and I think it's safe to say that he was too busy jacking off to Teletubbies to figure out how to play his stupid class.

As for the hunter... Which part of "Switch Aspects" is sooo hard to understand?
The fail!tank and I almost died because of this dumbass' lack of understanding of the English language... and if it weren't for Guardian Spirit and Desperate Prayer, we would've been goners.

You said WHAT?!?!

I thought my GM has lost finally lost his mind (really, that's a very subjective matter) when he told me that I should offspec shadow last night. Yes, I took a screenshot cause I thought he was lying...



Lo and behold, he was serious. Like a heart attack! (And I thought I was a heartbeat away from one after the first boss pull and I was DPSing!!!)

So I log on tonight, ready to raid. Killed Sindragossa and off to the Plague Wing we went. Before pulling, the raid leader tells me to go shadow. First response? "You don't have to tell me twice!"

Yeah, what the fuuuuck was I thinking? Bottom of the meters... yet again. /sigh

Don't get me wrong, I was excited... but nervous to the point that I was QQing on binds with one of the other priests in the raidgroup (who was laughing like it was her idea or something... GDI, I thought she was on MY side). I think I've deafened her poor little ears because I was screaming. Heh heh. She DPSed also, but she says I'm the stronger DPSer so I guess I was going to be stuck with being OS DPSer for now. It's not like I used my Body and Soul utility spec anymore anyway.

I do feel sorry for her though. They got her to respec to Disc for Lich King... and boy do I hate going disc. >_<

Overall, I don't think I did THAT badly, for DPSing with mostly healing gear. I need to read up more on SPing... but shadowpriest.com and tankspot.com confuses the fuck outta me instead of helping me.

First off, I need a more precise blog (or something!) that will tell me exactly what to do. I don't wanna have to scrounge up all the information I get from 10 pages of theorycrafting and people bitching about what gem to use (seriously? SERIOUSLY?!?!?)

Hope someone can make sense of all this jibberjabber for me or I might kill myself.

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

I read this a little while back... sorta reminded me of yesterday and today...

"No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
by Franklin P. Adams

There was a man in our town who had King Midas’ touch;
He gave away his millions to the colleges and such;
And people cried: “The hypocrite! He ought to understand
The ones who really need him are the children of this land!”

When Andrew Croesus built a home for children who were sick,
The people said they rather thought he did it as a trick,
And writers said: “He thinks about the drooping girls and boys,
But what about conditions with the men whom he employs?”

There was a man in our town who said that he would share
His profits with his laborers, for that was only fair,
And people said: “Oh, isn’t he the shrewd and foxy gent?
It cost him next to nothing for that free advértisement!”

There was a man in our town who had the perfect plan
To do away with poverty and other ills of man,
But he feared the public jeering, and the folks who would defame him,
So he never told the plan he had, and I can hardly blame him."

So I missed the raid on Tuesday because I did a good deed for my job(not expanding on this) and I was punished for it. I think the officers sat me because they wanted to bring in someone who actually was there first and I can't blame them. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't thoroughly pissed off about getting sat.

Then I got into a little argument with one of the boys and well, I pretty much shut down the rest of the night. He made me feel like I was inadequate as a healer and I already insecure enough as it is... not a good combination.

I know that it's probably not me and that our officers made the decision of leaving me out because they wanted what was best for the guild for the boss fights. I'm pro-progression and I don't really wanna sound like I wasn't a team player. But still...

I was called in to do a few fights, which I was thankful for (but sorta got pissed that none of the stuff I wanted dropped) but still I talked to the GM about it anyway after the raid.

Pretty much what summed up is that they wanted me in there, but unfortunately there just wasn't a spot for me. They needed the DPS (I am dual-specced holy) and my class is just too weak to handle the fight for healing.

I felt a little better after I talked to him, to be honest. Got things outta my chest, I heard words of encouragement and nothing was sugar-coated. No broken promises, but full of reassurance. I guess it's a blessing in disguise with what happened. I was hurt, but at least I know I can talk to my GM about stuff like this, without him going on all-out defensive and thinking that I'm just a little whiner... well, maybe he does, I dunno. I hope not.

Should I stop /headdesk before or after my head stops bleeding?

Well this week has been HELL to say the least. I am exhausted. Worked five days straight since Friday and everything that could possibly go wrong at work went wrong. HORRIBLY WRONG. Not gonna add any more to this, this is a WoW blog after all. Suffice to say, I'm surprised I still have a job today and that I haven't murdered anyone in that establishment yet. I seriously need real-life achievements from that!

As least tonight wasn't too bad when in came to gaming.

I think I did pretty good on the meters. Went in for Rotface for a chance to get a cloth wrist, but it didn't drop. Putricide was one-shotted (seriously, after last week's uber-fail attempts, I was surprised my GM didn't start bawling) and so was Heroic Blood Prince. I was benched for Blood Queen and decided to talk to Rago while I finished cooking dinner. I don't know whether I am happy I wasn't in for BQ because they did wipe a few times, not to mention no healer gear dropped. Besides, I think I've established myself as the guild's "Sunshine Committee" and make friends with all the new recruits. I have yet to make conversation with the new Lock/Warrior and they seem to keep to themselves. I don't know whether I like that or not, but it's always the quiet ones, you know? Heh heh.

I went in again for Valithria Dreamwalker and sad to say, even though I was doing decently on the meters, I think I jacked up big time. I was assigned to Guardian Spirit the green dragon but I keep screwing up because 1.) a main healer tells me to pop it every time it's up; 2.) another priest tells me that I need to wait for people to come out of the portals before I GS-ed.

Now I've always done #1. I call it out before I popped it ("Guardian Spirit in 5!"), then my macro announces it when it's up. Then we switched strategy to #2 which probably would've won the fight for us but well there had been a few times when the people who portal-ed in forgot to tell me that they were back out and that I had already popped the damn CD. Or that I thought I heard the word "out" and thought that was a sign for me to GS. Or that I was cursed with tunnel vision and didn't really focus on looking for the portal people's health bars pop back to LOS.

Granted I was re-invited in the group pretty late (probably the last 20-30 minutes of the night) and I honestly didn't expect I'd be back in there. Or maybe it's just me being uberly tired and have no business staying awake, let alone doing anything that involves using brain cells.

Healectra and I had talked in vent about this and we were both concerned about how everyone was taking so much damage towards the end. They kept bringing in more healers (to speed up the healing process) but is that really what we needed tonight?

(Interrupts Missing, I hate to say it, but the damn healers are the unsung heroes of this damn game. )

Why oh why did I pick a priest?

I was late for tonight's run so I didn't really get to go anywhere. Was invited for Heroic Lady Deathwhisper (was supposed to be hard-mode). But when trash respawned, the officers decided to go back to regular mode and attempt the bitch again next week when people finally pull their noggins outta their sphincters, wishful thinking really. The rest of the night I was benched. Imma be honest and say I was thoroughly pissed off that I was benched, but well really what can I expect on being a 3rd healing priest and fighting against OP healing classes? I hate my priest right now...

Back to Basics.

I've been Shadow off-specced on Emgalla since I left raiding. I spent a good amount of Gs on gems and enchants, but I decided against it. There is no way in hell I can understand SP DPS (I've tried it, I've read forums and listened to guildies... let's just say it's just not meant to be!).

Now, I've been wanting to try something else besides my Holy "Body and Soul" spec. But I thought I couldn't really have enough of a feel on how to heal since I don't raid and raids vs. 5/10-mans are just COMPLETELY different matters.

Since I started helping out with the guild a week ago, I thought it was the best time to be dual-specced holy (not to mention I hate Disc and I KNOW I am going to be forced to do it because our main Disc Priest is going to be on vacation!). Pre-emptive heals FTW!

Anyways, a week ago I went back to my old spec from god knows how long (can't believe I remembered how it was!) and last night, I realized that I used renew a LOT... enough that I need to be renew-centric specced for Spec#2.

So I looked at one of the top healing holy priests in World of Logs who relied on renew (Don't get me wrong POM and COH is my main heals, but I wanted a stronger HOT-spec). I don't know how exactly I came across the character name (nor do I remember it!) but I followed this spec. I am glad to report that I like this spec A LOT. HUUUGE improvement in the charts, but seriously, I think that was the least of my worries.

We one-shotted Heroic Festergut, (which gave us hell the night before!)... and much to everyone's disappointment, we wiped a few times on regular Putricide. Lag was the major issue for everyone. To me, it was just another raid group where people just didn't give a rat's ass.

We didn't do well on Heroic Blood Prince Council so the officers/RL decided we just did everything as on regular.

(insert the QQs of the two priests crying here)

Council and Blood Queen regular was a breeze. And so was Veristrasza. We barely killed Sindragossa after about 3 tries (one was my fault, which I was strongly apologizing in raid for). As for Lich King, we got him close to dead in three tries, but the last attempt went well THEN nosedived so close to end of raid time that we called it.

Cheers.. to yet another week without an Arthas Kill... /WRISTS

So, I 'splurged' (well I didn't really spend a copper since I already have all the mats for this) but I finally caved and made
Sandals of Consecration for Emgalla. I am not at ~6007 GS.

With a Vengeance!

So our healers were doing badly tonight on Festergut... or was it Rotface? OR BOTH?!?!? Can't remember, too traumatizing. And yeah, the fucking Trauma didn't drop so... WHATEVER /sulks in a corner.

All I remember is if there's two druids and a holy priest beats them on the charts most of the time... there's a really big problem.

And oh yeah as of tonight... I AM BAAAAAAAAACK (as a raider)... with a vengeance!

I'm A Kingslayer Baby!!!

Emgalla the Kingslayer